“I learned a new language for it all in the 90s. Which in some ways isn’t bad.”

I was fortunate enough to get a job at my alma mater, which brought me back to Indiana after being gone for twenty years.

One of the things I took from the show was emotional possibility.

I was a poor, geeky black kid in Indianapolis. There is nothing mythological about that.

You should check out William Shatner’s album The Transformed Man.

Because before that I wasn’t thinking about systems or food insecurity or whatever.

It was in the air somehow. That ownership of bigotry. I hadn’t seen it since I was a kid.

It’s financial of course, but it’s also the lifestyle choices. The more money people have the further away from each other they often want to be.

It made me want to change the kinds of poems I was writing, but I’m terrible at writing overtly political poems.

I wanted to be like Spock because he was unflappable.

I never thought I would type that I learned how to emote in poems from watching Star Trek but there it is.

Bones was a grouch but he was sympathetic. The show worked like a boy band in that way… it had characters who embodied different psychic or emotional positions and that allowed me to see a great range of things

That was one of things that surprised me so much when I was writing the poems.

I had to find a way to be more honest about what happened. And it wasn’t fun to write, even though the poems aren’t 100% autobiographical.

They are 100% the product of the circumstances that led me home.

By that I mean, honest and not trying to amplify some mythological version of myself.

I mean getting people to think about what language actually means before they use it is a good thing.

…all his longings came out as a kind of disdain for what he longed for.

And the percentage changes in wage rates would be the same for all job grades.

It’s where I keep all my things. Get a lot of compliments on this.

Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.

I think we should give them all the credit in the world. They want to know the truth.

Let’s face it. Rock and Roll is bigger than all of us

Whatever fells your mind is what you are. So, feel loving and peaceful for no reason at all.

Its operation in a world beset by fuel and energy crises makes no sense at all.